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UNTTED STATES PATENT Eic JACOB COHEN, 0F NEXV YORK, N. ,Y.

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EPECIPICAI'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,220, dated June10, 1884.

Application filed July 12, 1883.

To to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J noon COHEN, of New York, in the county and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts, ofwhich the followingisafull, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to open-front shirts, and the object is toprovide a shirt in which the center piece or outer fly may be readilysecured in the center of the frontand the under fly may be made to forma complete lap with the outer fly, to prevent the gaping of said partswhile the shirt is being worn.-

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a partial view of a shirt-front, showingthe usual manner of cutting open fronts. Fig. 2 is a cross-section ofthe same when the flies are sewed in. Fig. 3is a partial View of ashirt-front, showing my improved manner of cutting an open front. Fig. 4is a partial view of my improved shirtfront with the flies sewed in, andFig. 5 is a cross-section on line a: w of Fig. 4.

In singlebreasted open-front shirts as at present made a slit, A, asshown in Fig. l, is cut down from the neck-opening B through the middleof the front C. One of the edges of the slit A-for example, the edgea-is then turned under and hemmed, as shown in Fig. 2, which shortensthat side of the front, and throws the buttons which are attached tosaid side out of alignment with the central line, y y, of the front. Tothe other edge, a, of the slit A is attached the center piece or fly, D.This is done by stitching one edge of the fly D to the edge a, and thendoubling the material of the fly upon itself and stitching the otheredge of the fly to the body of that side of the front. In doing this,however, the material of the fly is apt to be doubled over too far ornot far enough, so that when the buttonholes are formed in the center ofthefly they will not properly correspond with the buttons on theopposite side of the front, and when the shirt is worn the front willgape open. It will be seen, also, that the scam uniting the edge a tothe fly comes at or nearly at the center of the fly,where thebutton-holes are to be (No model.)

formed, which is objectionable in any case, but more particularly so inthick, heavy goods, owing to the increased thickness given by the seam.Now, to remedy the above recited objections, I cut the shirt-front asshown in Fig. 3, in which a strip of equal width is cut out of thecenter of the shirt-front from the neck-opening B down to any desiredextent. The strip thus cut out may form a piece with the material cutout of the neck-opening and be utilized in neck and wristbands, so thatat least a part of the material cut out of theneckopening, which is .nowa total loss, is saved. The strip cut out of the front leaves a centralrectangular opening, E, the edges cc of which are equidistant from thecentral line, 1 y, of the front. To one of the edges (2 e is stitchedthe outer fly, F, (see Fig. 5,) and to the other the under fly, G, whichare of the same width, and as the two seams uniting the flies to saidedges are easily made the same distance from said edges the center ofone fly will be exactly in line with the center of the other fly, sothat in the front there is no danger in inexperienced hands of the saidflybeing made too broad or too narrow, and thus throwing itslongitudinal center out of alignment with that of the under fly, or,iii-fact, of that of the entire shirtfront.

My invention is applicable not only to all kinds of single-breastedshirts, but also to jumpers and waists and other garments.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of the body of the shirtfront havinganarrow opening'of parallel sides formed in its longitudinal center, anunder fly attached to one of the sides of said opening and having itslongitudinal center in alignment with that of the front, and an outerfiy having one edge attached to the opposite side of said opening andthe other doubled over strip with parallel sides from the shirt-front,

attaching an under fly to one of the sides of the 10 opening thusformed, and attaching to the opposite side of said opening one of theedges of an outer fly, and then doubling the material of the said outerfly upon itself and stitching its other edge to the body of that side ofthe front to which it has been attached; substantially as 15hereinbefore specified.

J A0013 COHEN. Witnesses:

A. G. LYNE,

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